[Catalyst] timeouts

[Peter Karman]

greetings cattle-lusters,

I've got a Cat app where I'm running into issues with DBI timeouts. I'm 
using raw DBI, but as I know there are lots of ORM developers here as 
well as us mere mortal Cat-rustlers, wondering how folks deal with this 
situation:

  sub foo : Local
  {

    # create dbi object, prepare, execute
    # but at least one of those steps results in a long
    # delay due to ... whatever (traffic, load, etc.)

  }

The DBI pod refers to Sys::SigAction as a good timeout handler. I'm 
headed that way. But wonder how folks deal with timeouts in Cat apps 
when a controller sends off for some info and there's a wait coming 
back. A quick cpan search for 'catalyst plugin alarm' didn't turn up 
anything.

I've got another example doing login auth against a server that may or 
may not feel like responding immediately. Since I'm using LWP::UserAgent 
in that case I just set the timeout explicitly, but DBI is a little 
trickier.

cheers,
pek
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